NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE Nobel Prizes Are Awarded Each Year To

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Nobel Prize in Literature

Nobel Prizes are awarded each year to people, regardless of nationality, who have made valuable contributions to the “good of humanity.” The prize for literature is for the most distinguished literary work of an idealistic nature. The books listed below can be found in the AIS Secondary Library.

2016 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: all the songs: the story behind every track by Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon

2015 Svetlana Alexievich Secondhand time: the last of the Soviets

2014 Patrick Modiano Accident nocturne Missing person Suspended Sentences

2013 Alice Munro Runaway Lives of girls and women The view from castle rock

2012 Mo Yan Big breasts and wide hips: a novel Red sorghum

2011 Tomas Tranströmer Baltics The Great Enigma The Half-finished Heaven: the Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer

2010 Mario Vargas Llosa The Storyteller Death in the Andes

2009 Herta Müller The Hunger Angel The Land of Green Plums Der Mensch ist ein grosser Fasan auf der Welt The Passport

2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Onitsha Desert

2007 Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook The Grass is Singing Stories in collections: The Old Chief Mshlanga, An Old Woman and Her Cat, A Proper Marriage, The Habit of Loving

2006 Orhan Pamuk Snow My Name is Red A Strangeness in my Mind

2005 Harold Pinter Complete Works: Volume Three Complete Works: Volume Four

2004 Elfriede Jelinek Lust The Piano Teacher Die Ausgesperrten Theaterstücke

2003 John Maxwell Coetzee Life and Times of Michael K Waiting for the Barbarians Disgrace Age of Iron Youth

2002 Imre Kertész Liquidation

2001 V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River A House for Mr. Biswas Miguel Street Half a Life

2000 Gao Xingjian Soul Mountain

1999 Gunter Grass The Tin Drum My Century Das Treffen in Telgte Die Blechtrommel Im Krebsgang Katz und Maus Örtlich betäubt Hundejahre Der Butt

1998 José Saramago Baltasar and Blimunda The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The Cave Blindness The Double

1997 Dario Fo

1996 Wislawa Szymborska View with a Grain of Sand : Selected Poems People on a Bridge: Poems

1995 Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist The Haw Lantern Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

1994 Kenzaburo Oe Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

1993 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Tar Baby Beloved Sula Paradise Jazz The Bluest Eye Love A Mercy

1992 Derek Walcott Omeros White Egrets

1991 Nadine Gordimer A Sport of Nature July’s People Loot and Other Stories None to Accompany Me The Conservationist Jump and Other Stories My Son’s Story Occasion for Loving The Lying Days The House Gun

1990 Octavio Paz Tale of Two Gardens Selected Poems

1989 Camilo José Cela

1988 Naguib Mahfouz Midaq Alley The Beginning and the End Sugar Street Palace of Desire Palace Walk The Beggar The Thief and the Dogs The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

1987 Joseph Brodsky Watermark

1986 Wole Soyinka Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems Isara, A Voyage Around Essay The Man Died Death and the King’s Horseman

1985 Claude Simon

1984 Jaroslav Seifert

1983 Sir William Golding Lord of the Flies

1982 Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Of Love and Other Demons No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories The General in His Labyrinth Chronicle of a Death Foretold Innocent Erendira, and Other Stories Leaf Storm, and Other Stories Love in the Time of Cholera News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera Cien Años de Soledad

1981 Elias Canetti Auto de Fe Das Augenspiel Die Fackel im Ohr Die Blendung Die Gerettete Zunge Dramen Die Stimmen von Marrakesch Crowds and Power

1980 Czeslaw Milosz Poezje Wybrane: Selected Poems

1979 Odysseus Elytis

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah Zlateh the Goat, and Other Stories

1977 Vincente Aleixandre

1976 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March Humboldt’s Gift Ravelstein The Actual Mr. Sammler’s Planet The Dean’s December

1975 Eugenio Montale

1974 Eyvind Johnson Harry Martinson

1973 Patrick White

1972 Heinrich Böll Irish Journal The Stories of Heinrich Böll Irisches Tagebuch Frauen vor Flusslandschaft. Billiard um halbzehn Gruppenbild mit Dame Haus ohne Hüter Ansichtens eines Clowns Und sagte kein einziges Wort

1971 Pablo Neruda Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Extravagaria The Book of Questions Selected Poems: a Bilingual Edition

1970 Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Stories and Prose Poems The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956/I-II The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956/V-VII The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956/III-V One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Invisible Allies

1969 Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Warten auf Godot Fin de Partie - Endspiel Molloy

1968 Yasunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes Snow Country

1967 Miguel Angel Asturias

1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon A simple story Nelly Sachs

1965 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

1964 Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit Les Mains sales Les Mots The wall Das Spiel ist aus. Die Eingeschlossenen Huis Clos suivi de Les Mouches

1963 Giorgos Seferis George Seferis, Collected Poems

1962 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men The Red Pony East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath The Pearl The Winter of our Discontent Cup of Gold: a Life of Sir Henry Morgan Tortilla Flat Cannery Row The Moon is Down Travels with Charley

1961 Ivo Andric Bosnian Chronicle The Bridge on the Drina

1960 Saint-John Perse

1959 Salvatore Quasimodo

1958 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

1957 Albert Camus The Plague The Stranger Mythe de Sisyphe La Peste Die Pest L'étranger

1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez

1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness

1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway A Moveable Feast The Old Man and the Sea Le Vieil Homme et la Mer The Sun Also Rises The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Men Without Women In Our Time The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories The Nick Adams Stories A Farewell to Arms The Garden of Eden Green Hills of Africa True at First Light

1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1952 François Mauriac

1951 Pär Fabian Lagerkvist The Dwarf

1950 Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell

1949 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury The Reivers A Fable Selected Letters of William Faulkner

1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot Growltiger’s Last Stand and Other Poems The Complete Poems and Plays Selected Essays

1947 André Paul Guillaume Gide Les Faux-Monnayeurs

1946 Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Steppenwolf Demian Narcissus and Goldmund Narziss und Goldmund Die Fremdenstadt im Süden Unterm Rad Das Glasperlenspiel Aus Indien

1945 Gabriela Mistral

1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

1943-1940 Prize money allotted to Main Fund/Special Fund

1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1938 Pearl Buck The Good Earth

1937 Roger Martin Du Gard

1936 Eugene Gladstone O’Neill The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape Long Day’s Journey into Night Three plays: Desire under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning becomes Electra

1935 Prize money alloted to Main Fund/Special Fund

1934 Luigi Pirandello Naked Masks: Five Plays Sechs Personen Suchen einen Autor

1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

1932 John Galsworthy

1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt

1930 Sinclair Lewis Babbit Arrowsmith

1929 Thomas Mann Death in Venice and Other Stories The Magic Mountain Buddenbrooks Tonio Kröger und Mario und der Zauberer Mario und der Zauberer Königliche Hoheit Doktor Faustus

1928 Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter

1927 Henri Bergson

1926 Grazia Deledda

1925 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Plays Pleasant

1924 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

1923 William Butler Yeats Works available in collections.

1922 Jacinto Benavente

1921 Anatole France Putois (short story) The Revolt of the Angels

1920 Knut Pedersen Hamsun

1919 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

1918 Prize allotted to the Special Fund

1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup Henrik Pontoppidan